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How Eight Surgical Articles Stack Into a Single Case for Persian Inheritance in Western Religion eFireTemple What Eight Articles Together Establish This article does something the eight surgical-comparison articles in this series cannot do on their own.
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How Eight Surgical Articles Stack Into a Single Case for Persian Inheritance in Western Religion eFireTemple What Eight Articles Together Establish This article does something the eight surgical-comparison articles in this series cannot do on their own. Each of those articles — on the Ars Notoria, the Confiteor, Daniel 12:2, Acts 23:8 and the Sadducees, the Vidui, the Baptismal Renunciation, the Sanctus and Trisagion, and the Sign of the Cross — establishes a single textual or liturgical hinge that demonstrates Persian inheritance into Western religion. Each piece, taken alone, can be acknowledged or dismissed on its own terms. A determined skeptic can engage any one of them as an isolated curiosity, attribute the parallel to coincidence or generic religious convergence, and walk away unchallenged. The eight articles together do something different.
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Hebrew Bible · New Testament